Dollars for Terror:

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Is the US going to pull out of Afghanistan, as Trump promised, or does it "depend on defeating the terrorists"? What is the amazing fuel that keeps those terrorists running, after so long a war?Richard Labévière dissects the financial ties of the Islamic terrorist networks. On the basis of four years' on-the-ground research, this leading international journalist traces funds around the world, from Washington to Caribbean tax havens and, often, to peaceful Switzerland, laying out the matrix of subterranean connections that keep this modern form of terror running. In a work as relevant today as it was 20 years ago, he shows that is privatized and, in effect, listed on the stock exchange.

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In a meticulous investigation, the author calls into question the foreign policy image of the United States, and tries to determine the American responsibility in a number of Islamic attacks throughout the world and analyzes the strategic errors of the American response.Are the United States and their Saudi allies sponsoring and financing the radical Islamists? "Islam is less likely to produce a 'clash of civilizations,' as Samuel Huntington predicted, than to consolidate mafia-like links between organized crime and the great business networks of global capitalism," and the result is a threat to democracy.Labévière shows that despite the violent attacks and virulent anti-American rhetoric, the world's greatest democracy is playing a leading role in propagating Islamic fundamentalism. Here is an audacious view of the globalization so loudly promoted by the U.S. p>The author uncovers the money-laundering, organized crime and the interlocking world of business and politics. The central nerve of Islam, he states, is not religion - it is money. . . Thoroughly researched and persuasive.

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PROLOGUE FOR AMERICAN EDITION The Cold War Continues. . .3 FOREWORD Chapter I An American Friend at the Palace of Nations Chapter II Islamism Versus Arab Nationalism Chapter III The Mercenaries of Globalization Chapter IV The CIA's "Afghans" and Their Networks Chapter V Osama bin Laden, "Our Man" in Kandahar Chapter VI The Holy and Financial War of the Muslim Brothers Chapter VII Is There a Pilot Onboard the U.S. Aircraft? Chapter VIII Making Good Use of "Low-Intensity Conflicts" Chapter IX The Privatization of U. S. Foreign Policy Chapter X Islamism and Zionism: Complementary Enemies Chapter XI Iran, the Alibi of the "Great Satan" Chapter XII Why Saudi Arabia Finances Islamism Chapter XIII The Taleban, Mercenaries of the American Oil Companies Chapter XIV Behind the Slaughter of Luxor, bin Laden's "Afghans" Chapter XV Islamist Deal-Making and Organized Crime Chapter XVI Afghanistan and Sudan are the Wrong Targets Chapter XVII Facing Islamism Conclusion The CIA at the Negotiating Table